Reply #69: The new theme is that it is the fault of bureaucracy. [View All]

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It isn't local government, per se, although they will go after local governments and blame local officials where they can. Again and again in the past week ( and for months before this) I have heard "Government will do its part" and then he goes into some song and dance about people being responsible or neighbors helping neighbors. Government will do its part - WTF? How about government will do its JOB.
What they are really after is the dismantling of the Federal Government itself. Well, dismantling isn't quite the word. Actually, it is. My take is that they are going to do two things. The first is to outsource and privatize, quite literally, the entire system - and this means schools, prisons, flood control, social security, all of it. And the means to get there is to be so bloody incompetent, or slow, or half-measured that they can then turn around and say "see, federal government is not working, and it is the bureaucracy that is at fault." Hence the new refrain of "bureaucracy" standing in the way of the "the people." The second step is to institutionalize legally the privatization process. See the recent SCOTUS decision on developers, for all intents and purposes, seizing private property for economic developmentand tax benefits. Remember, this is the same pResident who said that this was, in some ways a tremendous opportunity for the development of the Gulf Coast. As a side note: I was in a bar with two friends, and it was noisy, and in the middle of Bush's "speech," one of my friends said "did that motherf***er just say it was an opportunity to develop the golf course." No, but he might as well have.